Re: Make run in parallel mode with output redirected to a regular file can randomly drop output lines

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 05/26/2013 09:57 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
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> [SNIP]
>
> Might be worthwhile checking the FreeBSD code for their make, to see if
> they do something like this.
> 
Nope, Frank was right: when run in parallel mode, FreeBSD make unconditionally
behaves like GNU make does with the '-O' option enabled (I behavior I actively
dislike, since it cannot be worked around).  And it also has several other
terrible hacks and quirks.  For more info, see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Parallel-Make>

Thanks,
  Stefano